Garment-supporting clasp.



.No. 876,881. PATBNTED JAN. 1.4,1908.

W. W. JOHNSON.

GARMENT SUPPORTING GLASP, APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10. 1907.

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. To all whom it mag concern:

" UNITED E A ENT "OFFICE.

:WIILLIAMJWES'LEY JOHNSON; OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLYANIAJASSIGNOR TO THE sPi E LLA COMPANY, or MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, i k-CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA-.

GARMENr-sUrPoR'rrNG CLASP. I

Patented Jan. 1a, 1908.

Application flle dilanuary 10.1907. Serial No. 361.602;

Be it known'that' L WI LIAM ford, in the-State of Pennsylvania,-have in vented new and useful Improvem ents in Gar incur-Supporting Clasps, of which the following, taken in connectionwith the accompany.

. ing drawings, is a full, clear, and exact do; 10

scri tion. 1 a

T is invention relates to the classof clasps which are designed to support the garment 1 especially: the hose on the person of the 'wearer. v

a The invention consists in a novel cOnstructionandcombin'ation of the component parts i of a clasp, which is simple and inexpensive in I its manufacture, and convenient and-efficient 1 in its operation as hereinafter described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhic'h I Figure 1 is a front view of a clasp embody ing my inventiomFig- 2 is a longitudinal section onthe line in Fig. 1- Fig. 3 is an edge view of the clasp opened preparatory to connectin to and disconnecting from the garment; an Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are perspective view's'of the component parts of the clasp;

Similar numerals of reference indicate correspondin'g'p'arts.

plate of the'clasp This plate is formed with the usual -hook;2. on one end thereof for engaging the garment to be supportedas indicated at 3. v

4-. denotes the strap or band by means of which. the clasp is connected to the waistbandof a skirt orothe'r-suitable article se-- curedto the person wearing the garment-to be supported by the clasp. For connecting the clasp tothe saidstrap, the base-plate is provided with a transverse slot 5 in roximity to the hook 2. and.witl1' asimiar slot 6' in the opposite end of the: baseplate. The suspended'end of the strap-4 passes through the slot 6, thence along 'thestrap forms a lining therein .to protect the engaged portion of the, garment 3- from undue wear and injury. To strengthen the said base-plate it is formed with longi- WEsriEY JOHNSON, a citizen of. the, United-States, and resident of Meadville, in the county of Crawtudinal side-flanges projecting at right angles from the. plane of the plate;-

.These: flanges terminate in elongated ears .88' which extend across the ends of ,the slot -6' and thus compensatefor the weakening effect of the said slot. v 9 denotes a thumb-lever which consists of a platefulcrumed on the ears -8' 8 preferably by meansof ears '.1 0-- projecting from the side edgesof one of the'end-portions of the said plate and toward the baseplate andpivotally connected to the ears '-,-8.8v. Said lever extends partway toward the hook 2 and is formed at the opposite orfulcrumed end with an upwardly projecting thumb-piece 11m-.which is in.

approximately the same plane withithe saidlever for the purpose hereinafter explained.

The-side edges of the lever -9- are provided with lugs 12 projecting toward the base-plate and disposed intermediate the ears ,10 of the lever "and hook 2- of the base-plate.

13 represents I plate, which is interposed between the lever 9 and base.plate --''1-{-and is pivoted at one end to the lugs 12: preferably by' means of pintles-14% projecting from the.

the garment-clamping.

side edgesof the said clampin -plate and inserted into perforationsin the ugs 12.

lever is tofbe swung outward from the In applying the described claspto the hose base-plate, which operation is greatly facilitated and expedited by the operator pressing on theei'rterior of the aforesaid thumbiece 11 'as shown in'Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Said movement of the leverdraws the clamp.

:toallow a portion of thegarment tov be placed :inthe said llOOk. :,f A ftBI' tl1lS is effected,'the joperator depressesfthe free end of the lever and thereby'causes'the' late 3 to pinch the garment inthe; lioo soas to securely retain the garment therein as represented in .Figsl -l and 2flof the drawings. .Therelease formed on one end with a garment-engaging hook, of a lever pivoted to the opposite end plate and pivoted to the lever adjacent to the d of said'body plate and extending with its pivoted end thereof substantially as set free end toward the aforesaid hook and forth and shown." formedpn' theopposite end with a thumb- WILLIAM WESLEY JOHNSON. [L. s]

5 piece dis osed in approximately the same Witnesses:

\ plane wit the lever, and the clamping plate MAUDE HARPER, interposed between the said lever and body- W. M. KINGA-ID. 

